Tax rollback proposal is foolish and unwise
The move by 14 state senators to roll back the income tax cuts the Legislature created in 1998 may be making a political point, but it is a dangerous one.
Why shouldn't subs be able to rescue?
Perhaps the best thing to emerge from the court of inquiry into the fatal collision of the submarine USS Greeneville and the Japanese fishing vessel Ehime Maru might be an improvement in the search-and-rescue abilities of the American submarine fleet.
Tom Plate
Shadow falls on outlook for Koreas
Remember how the senior George Bush, when he was president, admitted to having trouble with "the vision thing"? Has that deficiency been passed on to his son?
After Deadline
Advertiser welcomes new era of competition
This week The Advertiser and the Star-Bulletin will dissolve their 39-year-old Joint Operating Agreement (JOA) and begin a new era of competition. What matters is whether we live up to our mission here in Hawai'i - and we intend to. By Saundra Keyes, editor of The Advertiser.
Focus
Sub apologies stir debate
Japan failed to express regret for war horrors
What took place Feb. 9, when one of our submarines crashed through the surface of the Pacific and rammed a fishing boat, was a tragedy. But unlike Pearl Harbor, this was an accident, and we have apologized for it over and over again. By Mike Barnicle, a columnist for the New York Daily News. |
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Japanese have apologized adequately for bombing
Many complain that while the United States is expected to apologize to Japan for the tragic Ehime Maru accident, the Japanese have failed to adequately apologize to the United States and the people of Hawai'i for World War II and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I think they have, in many ways. By Marsha Joyner, president of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Coalition in Hawai'i. |
From the na'au: equality, unity, brotherhood, aloha
There is no historical, legal, or moral justification for race-based political sovereignty for ethnic Hawaiians.
2002 winners will be Democrats who talk a new, centrist line
"A week is a long time in politics," said Lord Somebody. How about a century in Hawai'i politics? Here's what two senior pollsters say has happened.
Jerry Burris
Isles ideal to bridge culture gap
One of the enduring ironies of the collision between the Japanese training ship Ehime Maru and the American submarine USS Greeneville is that it happened in Hawai'i. |
